“The State of Social Marketing” will look at current and future trends in social, and how companies can best utilize these trends for growth. Brad McCarty, the North American editor of The Next Web, will give a 10 minute presentation on the three most essential changes in social marketing over the next year, and then a panel […]
Mention computer programming and many intelligent and fairly computer-savvy college-bound youngsters and adults metaphorically throw up their hands, assuming it’s too hard and certainly way beyond them. As a result, relatively few study programming in college, a reality that caused enough concern for Microsoft, Intel Foundation, Google,Iomega, and the MIT Media Lab research consortia, not to mention the National Science […]
SXSW Interactive 2012 welcomes the panel, “Don’t Just Sell Things: Change the World”, which will detail how companies can change the world for the better. In today’s transparent and ever-changing world corporate responsibility has never been more important. The panelists will explain how companies can merge technology, design and social responsibility. Cindy Gallop Cindy Gallop […]
RecycleMatch is known as the “eBay of trash and recycling,” helping make use of industrial waste. How does it work? 1. Seller posts waste or recyclables 2. Buyers bid on materials 3. A Match is made … and one business’ trash efficiently becomes another business’ treasure. Brooke Farrell (@brookebf), the CMO and Founder of RecycleMatch, […]
Tons of noteworthy products and technologies are being introduced at SXSW this year, but only one has already earned the attention of The New York Times, Mashable, and influential artists like Erykah Badu, The Roots, and Austin’s own Quiet Company. That product is FanTrail. Fantrail is a mobile platform changing the way fans interact with […]
Do you ever wish that search engines could read your mind? This could be closer then you might think. On Saturday, March 12 some of the top names in search will come together to discuss how search is evolving into a tool that better understands how people talk, think, and feel and why that leads […]
A first glance at the title for this panel might tempt one to think that the word “farmers” is a techie euphemism for something other than farmers … but it isn’t. “Farmers” means “farmers” – hard work, crops, livestock, tractors, weather, harvesting, soil, long hours, … well, you get the idea. “Business” means “business,” and “mobile” […]